Features/Tips & shortcuts

• Tips & shortcuts
  • A quick tour of the things that aren't obvious on day one. (Shortcuts are remappable in Settings.)
• Find anything — Ctrl+K
  • Ctrl+K opens the quick switcher: jump to a page, search the text of any block, or run a command — all from one box. Ctrl+Shift+P opens the command palette (commands only).
  • Use Ctrl+Shift+K to search only the focused page, including children hidden under folded bullets. In the ordinary Ctrl+K switcher, press Shift+Enter on a page or block to send it to the right sidebar, or Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to open it in a background tab — either way the switcher stays open.
  • Use Search syntax for phrases, alternatives, exclusions, and regular expressions. Choose Open search tab to keep the complete search in a graph-specific tab instead of choosing only one hit.
  • That result tab can switch between Search, List, Table, and Board without changing what matched. Use Name this search to save it as a page and Save page when the search is worth keeping: Tine turns it into an ordinary query page in your graph. Filters / Advanced handles friendly fields and date ranges; Edit as visual query opens the deeper visual editor when needed.
  • Page-title matching keeps exact, prefix, substring, and fuzzy results in that order. Repeated choices may break ties inside one class using device-local history; Settings → Editor → Learn Ctrl+K choices disables or resets it.
  • For a task-first tour of finding things and keeping searches, see Workflows/Find and revisit; for the exact rules, Reference/Pages, links, references, and search.
• Follow a link without the mouse — Ctrl+O
  • With the caret inside a [[link]] or a #tag, Ctrl+O opens that page and Ctrl+Shift+O opens it in the right sidebar. This works while you are editing, so you can follow a name you just typed without reaching for the mouse.
  • A link whose page does not exist yet is drawn dimmed with a dotted underline. It still works — opening it creates the page — but you can see before clicking that it will start empty. Tags are left alone, since a tag with no page of its own is perfectly normal.
• Create one yourself
  • 1. Press Ctrl+K.
  • 2. Type part of a page name, a block phrase, or a command such as Open Guide.
  • 3. Press Enter on the highlighted result.
  • 4. What you should see: Tine jumps to the page/block or runs the command without leaving your graph.
• Slash commands — /
  • Type / at the start of a bullet for a menu: tasks, headings, a code block, a /calc live calculator, dates (Scheduled / Deadline), callouts, queries, a math block, asset upload, and more. /Code block opens a language picker; typing a language after an opening backtick or tilde fence offers the same completion.
• Tabs
  • Middle-click or Ctrl/Cmd-click any bullet, page, or search result to open it in a background tab; Alt-click the same thing to open it in the other pane. Double-click a tab to pin it, drag to reorder, Ctrl+W to close. Your tabs come back next launch.
  • When a pane has more tabs than fit, use its tab-overview button to see every full title, activate or pin a tab, close it, or reorder it with the drag handle / Alt+Up/Down without guessing from truncated labels.
  • For arranging tabs with the sidebars and split panes into a working layout — and saving it as a workspace — see Workflows/Keep context visible; Start/Where things are maps the places first.
• The sidebars
  • t l toggles the left sidebar — journals, favorites, recents, all pages, and a namespace tree. Favorites and Recent can be folded independently; + New group arranges favorites into collapsible labels, and dragging left/right lifts or nests rows.
  • t r toggles the right sidebar; Shift-click any bullet's dot to open it there and keep it beside your work. Each right-sidebar item can be folded independently, and its menu can collapse, expand, or close them all.
  • On a phone-width window (below 640 px), either sidebar opens over the page. Tap the shaded outside edge, use the close button, press Esc, or press Android Back to return to the page. Wider tablet and desktop windows keep the ordinary persistent, resizable sidebars.
  • Click the vertical outline guide below a bullet to expand its complete descendant subtree when anything inside is folded, or collapse all of those descendants when everything is open. The bullet itself keeps its ordinary one-level action.
• Focus mode & dimming — t f / t b
  • t f (focus mode) hides the sidebars and toolbar so the screen is just your text; layered Esc steps back out.
  • t b (dim inactive blocks) fades everything except the bullet you're editing — a typewriter-style spotlight. Use it on its own, or let focus mode turn it on for you.
• Page width — t w
  • t w switches between the standard reading column and Wide mode. The page keeps the same width while you edit, fold blocks, or open reference sections.
  • Wide mode fills the available pane by default. To tune either layout on this device, open Settings → Appearance → Advanced: set the standard page width in pixels, or give Wide mode a custom maximum.
• A few more worth knowing
  • In Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts, use the settings search field to filter commands by name, command ID, or current binding before recording a replacement. A shortcut you record works while you are editing a block too, including one whose only modifier is Alt.
  • Use the … beside an ordinary page title for its complete actions menu: open the source file, copy/export, inspect properties, rename, carry tasks, or delete. It is the same menu as right-click and works from the keyboard and touch.
  • Carry unfinished tasks forward into today (from the command palette) — the last 7 / 30 / 365 days, optionally with their context.
  • Select several task bullets and press Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to advance each one through your workflow in a single Undo step. The selection toolbar can also wrap selected text as a page link or inline code.
  • Namespaces: name a page Project/Roadmap and it nests under Project in the sidebar. This page lives under Features.
  • Page icons: add a property like icon:: 📚 at the very top of a page — that's where the ⌨️ on this one comes from.
  • Interface zoom with Ctrl + / - / 0, and PDFs, images, and audio all have their own controls.